Coal also plays a prominent role in administration-backed
energy legislation, with $2 billion set aside for clean coal research. The bill currently is in legislative limbo.

When Bush was sworn in, coal was battling
regulatory efforts that would have made it an "economically unviable" energy source, the Center for Public Integrity writes.

"Less than three years later, coal is once
again king. Bush, an oil man whose biggest campaign contributor was natural gas giant Enron Corp., has done more to advance
the interests of coal than for any other sector of the energy industry."

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